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Heber Springs, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Township 2. It lies in ZIP code area 72543. It lies near Bridal Veil Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Heber Springs quadrangle. 6,969 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 341 feet above sea level.

Heber Springs within Cleburne County

On record in Heber Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 10 records

Population over time

2 figures

Heber Springs fell from 7,165 to 6,969 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20107,165
20206,969-196 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Heber Springs between 1997 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2012Natural4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 July 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleburne County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Heber Springs: 10 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Heber Springs Quarry & MillSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Cleburne County

Storms near this place

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heber Springs in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1995Thunderstorm WindHeber Springs-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and damaged some roof of buildings.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindHeber Springs-Thunderstorm winds blew camping trailers over and uprooted trees in the Heber Springs area. Some of the trees fell onto camping trailers.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHeber Springs-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees onto houses.
August 1995HailHeber Springs-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and power lines.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindHeber Springs-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and power lines.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindHeber Springs-Several trees were blown down.
September 1993HailHeber Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cleburne County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Driftwood Shores3.8 miles11
South Shore Park4.8 miles11
Tannenbaum4.9 miles16
Tumbling Shoals4.9 miles15
Libby (historical)4.9 miles10
Miller (historical)5.0 miles16
Lake Ridge5.3 miles16
Snell6.1 miles10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Heber SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q80096The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77155. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.